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From: cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Not for Export?
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.215726.481@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 17 Apr 91 09:57:26 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.042431.10997@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <1991Apr17.211013.5@lincoln.ac.nz>
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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In article <1991Apr17.211013.5@lincoln.ac.nz>, english@lincoln.ac.nz writes:
> In article <1991Apr16.042431.10997@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>,
mholtz@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark A. Holtz) writes:
>> I was in a local software store last week, and was looking around,
>> and noticed that some software packages, (most notable "PageMaker
>> 4" and (I think) "Corel Draw") said on the box "NOT FOR EXPORT -
>> For US and Canada Only". I realize why PC Tools Deluxe and PKZip
>> are not allowed to be exported - It's due to encryption by DES
>> standards. But, why Pagemaker?
>> -- 
> 
> is simply commercial reasons, pagemaker will have a reseller/distributor
> in other parts of the world, who have been given the entire market and
> protected from people buying directly from the states. miscrsoft do this
> also, as a result we pay twice the price for our microsoft products in
> this part of the world.
> 
> can assure you it's not because of the compression routines, have
> bought packages locally which use these compression routines.

As I understand it the "full" version of PKZIP is not for export from the
US because of the _encryption_ but I'm not sure that it's DES.  If it is
DES this is a lousy reason to prevent us from legally obtaining this
software.

If you bought, borrowed or stole the Nov 90 DDJ you got source code for
DES en/de-cryption, and I certainly didn't hear of any attempt by US
authorities to to prevent that from going off-shore.

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